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Open Document Formats:Microsoft succumbs to public pressure
by James Mathew 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

** http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5153350.stm -- HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE!

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Fwd: [hipatia] very very interesting Bertrand Russell
by Arun M 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Here is a mail from a friend. .... It's a small book of Bertrand Russell written in 1917 titled "Political Ideals". http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4776 It says very clearly very important things. It anticipates profetically themes that are tremendously important today. Some excerpts follow. <snip> We may distinguish two sorts of goods, and two corresponding sorts of impulses. There are goods in regard to which individual possession is possible, and there are goods in which all can share alike. <snip> There are two kinds of impulses, corresponding to the two kinds of goods. There are possessive impulses, which aim at acquiring or retaining private goods that cannot be shared; these center in the impulse of property. And there are creative or constructive impulses, which aim at bringing into the world or making available for use the kind of goods in which there is no privacy and no possession. The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest. This is no new discovery. The Gospel says: "Take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?" <snip> What we shall desire for individuals is now clear: strong creative impulses, overpowering and absorbing the instinct of possession; reverence for others; respect for the fundamental creative impulse in ourselves. <snip> Political and social institutions are to be judged by the good or harm that they do to individuals. Do they encourage creativeness rather than possessiveness? Do they embody or promote a spirit of reverence between human beings? Do they preserve self-respect? <snip> But security and liberty are only the negative conditions for good political institutions. When they have been won, we need also the positive condition: encouragement of creative energy. <snip>

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Any possibility of using Nokia 3120 as gprs modem?
by sandeep Kumar 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Thanks Tinku, > There is an efficient and easy to use tool named ' GPRS Easy Connect ' to > get GPRS connection on GNU/Linux. You can download it from the following > link. > http://easyconnect.linuxuser.hu/ I downloaded it and am trying it out. But so far no luck. I have shared the results of my so far attempts and observed issues and HOPES (about phones mentioned by nokia as non modem ones) at - http://www.gprsec.hu/modules/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50 Any further feedback/suggestions from fsf friends are welcome. Raju: My non-nokia cable is detected by cp2101 (Silicon Labs) and pl2303 (Prolific) drivers not by ark116. But I am working with 2.6.17 now. There is a small issue though, if I load only pl2303 (that gets associated with ttyUSB0), "wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf" and "wvdial" (with handcrafted wvdial.conf) both result in segmentation fault due to some messup with EIP in "..... serial_open ... -> ... pl2303_open " leading to applications getting terminated with locks held and only way back to reloading the needed drivers successfully is after reboot. If anyone else experienced similar issue and resolved, it could save some time. In any case more clues always help. Could not get old ksymoops to help - perhaps some format difference b/w /proc/ksyms of earlier days and /proc/kallsyms now or some other issue - will check it out tonight. --- Sandeep ---------------------------------------------------- Want to know more about me? Check out http://www.geocities.com/shimple0 -- ______________________________________________ IndiaInfo Mail - the free e-mail service with a difference! www.indiainfo.com Check out our value-added Premium features, such as an extra 20MB for mail storage, POP3, e-mail forwarding, and ads-free mailboxes!

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